My recent visit to the Australian War Memorial

[Scott Powell]

[Scott Powell]

[Scott Powell]

We also visited the War memorial in Hyde Park ,which is in downtown Sydney.
I was very impressed in the manner that Australia honours it's war heroes. Craig told me that by law, each town must have a memorial to the dead,and is guaranteed a piece of captured enemy equipment to display

[Scott Powell]

[Chet Sowersby]

Scott,
Some very good pictures of what appears to be a superb museum. My favorite was of the Me-163. Examples of thoes are few and far between. Thanks for sharing your visit.

Chet

[Mooyman]

WOW!!!

One the BEST Museum of the World!!!!

Thank you for sharing!!!!

Best regards from Brazil,

Ricardo.

[Gran Sasso]

It was a bit dissapointing to only see one aircraft from the Great War.

No wonder there is only one plane form WWI. The war memorial owned once the largest collection of WWI-planes - till they decided to get rid of them in the 1930s, and burnt (!) them all but that one...

[Jean-Loup]

Thanks for taking time to post all those photos. It looks like a very impressive and interesting museum. The Richtofen stuff was very cool to see.

[schultze]

Austrailian War Memorial

Fantastic pictures, thanks for posting. I was most interested to see the Lancaster. My Mother's cousin was a Flight Engineer on this aircraft for time. He completed 30 (Doubt that they were all on "G for George" )ops but on the day he finished, a fellow engineer was sick. Austin took his place. This was his last op as the Lanc was shot down over Holland with the loss of all the crew.

WE WILL REMEMBER THEM

[Scott Powell]

Fantastic pictures, thanks for posting. I was most interested to see the Lancaster. My Mother's cousin was a Flight Engineer on this aircraft for time. He completed 30 (Doubt that they were all on "G for George" )ops but on the day he finished, a fellow engineer was sick. Austin took his place. This was his last op as the Lanc was shot down over Holland with the loss of all the crew.

WE WILL REMEMBER THEM

sorry to read of your loss.
the Lancaster, Flak gun and Messerscmidtt were all part of an integrated simulation and had voices of Aircraft control as well as other pilots and ground crew,along with a movie of a raid over germany, in an attempt to demonstrate what these brave men endured.

[Scott Powell]

thanx for the kind words! i HIGHLY reccomend this museuem,the spirt of the brave fills the halls

[Sgnt Fury]

I was there a few months ago myself. The ME109G is the last in the world with original wartime paint.

[Jono]

Great pics, gives me more of an incentive to go

[slayer]

Hi Scott great pics, yes the Australian war memorial is one of the best in the world.

Most local towns or suburbs have War Memorials and RSL clubs honouring all those who served in all theatres of war.

Attached is a link to an old thread of some pics of the local memorials near where I live, some of these memorials are quite detailed.
http://dev.wehrmacht-awards.com/foru...=war+memorials